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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given water for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVWATER)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1080
End: 1080
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
459 When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she given any of the following to drink:
A fluid, made from a special rehydration packet?
Thin watery porridge?
Soup?
Home-made sugar-salt-water solution?
Milk or infant formula?
Yoghurt-based drink?
Black Tea?
Water?
Coke?
Any other liquid?

FLUID FROM ORS PKT

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

THIN WATERY

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

PORRIDGE

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

SOUP

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

SUG.-SALT-WAT. SOL

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

MILK/INFANT FORM

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

YOGHURT-BASED DR

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

BLACK TEA

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

COKE

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

OTHER LIQUID

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVWATER indicates whether the child was given water, in response to a yes/no question about specific liquids and watery food given during the illness.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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